Real-time results from the Utah Elections Office site
For those readers who are following today's Primary Election races, we've created these links to the State Elections Office website, where results are already flowing in.
Here's a link to the main menu, where results can be viewed for all Utah races.
For Weber County residents, we've carved out two pages which are pertinent to the races included on today's Weber County ballots.
State Treasurer
House Legislative District 7
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Just another helpful resource for Weber County Forum readers.
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12 comments:
Looks like the Republican voters are in a "throw the bums out" mood tonight.
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From grit's post:
If you don't like what I have posted, don't bother to reply, I won't be back to check to see what you have written.
Ah, Grit, now that's the way to win friends and influence people. Tell them they must agree with you, or screw them. [Bet he's a Republican. Any takers?]
Mono:
Rep. Canon, one of the knuckle-draggingest, mouth-breathingest whacko right wingers in the House, has been denied renomination by Utah Republicans.
And why, according to the SE? Because he's too liberal.
God, I love Utah politics! You couldn't find stuff this funny on the Daly Show.
Mono [or anybody]:
Did the dumped-from-the-ticket-last-night Rep.Donaldson favor vouchers? I don't recall and I don't follow Republican internal politics that closely. [There's only so much time I can devote to watching improve comedy after all.] But I seem to recall he was in trouble with voters for supporting the odious voucher plan. Have I got that right, or am I mistaken about that?
I'm wondering, because I don't think the SE story this morning, seeking to explain his fall from power, mentioned vouchers at all.
Anyone recall?
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Confidential to Curmudgeon:
Donnelson's claim to fame is as an anti-immigration legislator, not necessarily a kingpin in the vouchers camp. However, when the House passed HB148, the voucher bill, by a one-vote margin on Feb. 2, 2007, Donnelson was in the majority.
MM:
Thanks. I thought I recalled something about some of his constituents being upset about his voucher vote. Thanks again for the info.
Moroni, Curmudgeon:
This is the discussion I got involved in over at the SLTrib discussion board.
I don't think that immigration policy is a large issue with most voters. I do think that there are a small number of very, very vocal and passionate voters who feel strongly about it.
My interpretation (as a non-Republican non-LDS Utahn, a rara avis indeed) is that the Republican primary votes yesterday had more to do with "change" or anti-incumbency than they do with immigration policy, or any other single issue such as vouchers.
I think people are dissatisfied with the direction this county, this state, and this country are taking, and they want to see a new direction.
Again, that's my interpretation as an "outsider" of sorts, and so I may be dead wrong. Or, like a broken clock, I may be right twice today, but only if I post at exactly the right times.
Monotreme:
On the one hand, I endorse a new direction in the coming election.
On the other hand, there weren't actually that many Utah incumbents defrocked yesterday, were there?
Nope, but they didn't have that many opportunities, thanks to the one-party, no-debate, no-discussion ironclad rule of the mossback Republican establishment. I'd like to see that change, too, but that's a change that my Republican friends need to effect.
"On the one hand, I endorse a new direction in the coming election.
On the other hand, there weren't actually that many Utah incumbents defrocked yesterday, were there?"
Well, it depends on how you look at it. Every Utah incumbent on the Federal or State level up for re-election yesterday LOST, Donnelson and Cannon by surprising margins. And the hand-picked, leadership-endorsed candidate for State Treasurer got spanked as well. The other two House races and the Senate race were for open seats I believe.
The Republican County Convention system features the most far-right, least mainstream representation of the general population, plus has rules for automatic delegates that stack the deck even more in favor of the establishment--especially here in Utah County--plus in 2000ish they lowered the threshold from 70% to 60% of delegate votes for a candidate to avoid a primary. This "incumbent protection system" filtered much of the discontent with our legislature, but Edwards and Wilcox immerging to a primary showed the discontent even within staunch Republican ranks. Even in Utah County, two incumbents avoided primaries by only one vote and only one incumbent would have avoided a primary under the old, and in my opinion stronger, 70% standard.
Once the incumbents faced a larger cross-section of Republican voters, they wilted. The other non-legislative-establishment candidate, Ellis, trailed Walker 59% to 40.something% in convention, but reversed those numbers in the primary. The Republican primary has a broader representation than the caucuses and conventions, but is still a very right-leaning group, and they showed great unhappiness with incumbents. The general population and presumably greater turnout in November for the presidential election should magnify those trends. I don’t predict any huge Democrat gains, but they should surely gain a couple seats in the state legislature I would think.
I agree with Monotreme about the Cannon/Chaffetz vote being more about unhappiness in general with Congress, but I think the local losses are due to specific issues—yes, vouchers; stadium; developers’ dream law; no ethics reform; judge intimidation; actually thinking Republican rank and file are stupid enough to want a nice, untrained guy managing multi-billions of state funds—slowly exposing corrupt legislative leadership. The state is generally well-managed and our economy is doing well when compared to the national market; I think people are slowly becoming active in opposition to the entrenched legislature.
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